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The Legend of Pradeep Mathew
Winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize * Winner of the $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature * * A Publishers Weekly "First Fiction" Pick for Spring 2012 * "A crazy ambidextrous delight. A drunk and totally unreliable narrator runs alongside the reader insisting him or her into the great fictional possibilities of cricket."--Michael Ondaatje Aging sportswriter W.G. Karunasena's liver is shot. Years of drinking have seen to that. As his health fades, he embarks with his friend Ari on a madcap search for legendary cricket bowler Pradeep Mathew. En route they discover a mysterious six-fingered coach, a Tamil Tiger warlord, and startling truths about their beloved sport and country. A prizewinner in Sri Lanka, and a sensation in India and Britain, The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka is a nimble and original debut that blends cricket and the history of modern Sri Lanka into a vivid and comedic swirl.
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023 Now with added author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis Personae A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to try and contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's foremost author delivers a rip-roaring epic, full of mordant wit and disturbing truths. 'Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Gogol and Bulgakov.' Guardian 'Outstanding... the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade.' New European
Sri Lanka Education Sector Assessment
A country’s education system plays a pivotal role in promoting economic growth and shared prosperity.Sri Lanka has enjoyed high school-attainment and enrollment rates for several decades. However, it stillfaces major challenges in the education sector, and these challenges undermine the country’s inclusivegrowthgoal and its ambition to become a competitive upper-middle-income country.The authors of Sri Lanka Education Sector Assessment: Achievements, Challenges, and Policy Options offer athorough review of Sri Lanka’s education sector—from early childhood education through higher education.With this book, they attempt to answer three questions:• How is Sri Lanka’s education syste...
Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka
Analyses of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983–2009) overwhelmingly represent it as an ethnonationalist contest, prolonging postcolonial arguments on the creation and dissolution of the incipient nation-state since independence in 1948. While colonial divide-and-rule policies, the rise of ethnonationalist lobbies, structural discrimination and majoritarian democracy have been established as grounds for inter-ethnic hostility, there are other significant transformative forces that remain largely unacknowledged in postcolonial analyses. This ambitious multiscalar spatial study of civil war in Sri Lanka offers an intersectional, de-ethnicised analysis of political sovereignty drawn out by the str...
De zeven manen van Maali Almeida
WINNAAR BOOKER PRIZE 2022 ‘Een wervelend verhaal vol inktzwarte humor. [...] Een bekroning waard.’ de Volkskrant ‘Een overrompelende roman, geschreven in weelderige zinnen.’ Trouw Colombo, 1990. De Sri Lankaanse oorlogsfotograaf Maali Almeida ontwaakt op een plek tussen het leven en de dood. Zijn lichaam zinkt dieper en dieper in het Beira-meer en hij heeft geen idee hoe hij aan zijn einde is gekomen. Veel tijd om dit te achterhalen is er niet: Maali heeft zeven manen om uit te vinden wie hem heeft vermoord, contact te zoeken met zijn geliefden én fotografisch bewijs te leveren van een groot nationaal schandaal in Sri Lanka. De zeven manen van Maali Almeida laat je kennismaken met d...
As sete luas de Maali Almeida
Vencedor do Booker Prize de 2022, As sete luas de Maali Almeida se passa entre os vivos e os mortos durante a guerra civil no Sri Lanka. Ao criar um universo exuberante, Shehan Karunatilaka satiriza a realidade política de seu país e traz reflexões surpreendentes sobre as mais profundas questões humanas. Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1990. Maali Almeida descobre da pior maneira possível que existe vida após a morte: ele acorda no Interstício, um lugar cheio de almas confusas e perdidas. Nessa espécie de purgatório, ele descobre que foi assassinado e que seu corpo desmembrado está afundando no Lago Beira, mas não faz ideia de quem o matou. Numa época em que o acerto de contas é feito por e...
Maali Almeidas sju månar
Maali Almeida, krigsfotograf, spelmissbrukare och garderobshomo, har plötsligt vaknat upp i vad som verkar vara ett himmelskt visumkontor. Han kan se sin styckade kropp sjunka i Beirasjön, men har ingen aning om vem som dödade honom. I en tid då srilankesernas öden ligger i händerna på dödsskvadroner, självmordsbombare och inhyrda torpeder, är listan över misstänkta deprimerande lång. Men även i livet efter detta börjar tiden rinna ut för Maali. Han har hamnat i ett tillstånd där han kan röra sig mellan de levande och de döda och han har "sju månar", det vill säga sju dygn, på sig för att förstå vem som är ansvarig för hans död. Maali måste dessutom gottgöra si...
Mary Anning’s Grewsome Beasts
This book tells the true story of a scientist named Mary Anning. The fossils she found helped invent the science of palaeontology. If you’ve heard of Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs or Pterosaurs you already know her work but there’s so much that’s been hidden or forgotten.
Vanni
In the tradition of Maus, Persepolis, Palestine and The Breadwinner, Vanni is a graphic novel focusing on the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the 'Tamil Tigers', told from the perspective of a single family. This moving, exceptional graphic novel portrays the personal experiences of modern warfare, the processes of forced migration and the struggles of seeking asylum in Europe. Inspired by Dix's experience of working in Sri Lanka for the United Nations during the war, Vanni draws upon over four years of meticulous research, includes first-hand interviews, references from official reports and cross-referencing with experts in the field. Elegantly drawn by Lindsay Pollock, and with a real sense of immediacy, Vanni takes readers through the otherwise unimaginable struggles, horrors and life-changing decisions families and individuals are forced to make when caught in conflict.
